Colin Firth Quotes

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director. Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

It's really interesting to observe each filmmaker's approach to filmmaking and I feel very fortunate to have worked with a lot of really interesting filmmakers and they all approach their job in unique ways.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

Unless you write your own movies... you can't really say what you want to say.

Films should involve a director's idiosyncrasies as much as possible I think.

As a screenwriter, you always have frustrations. It's just the nature of the job, and you have to live with it. Your vision is not going to be the same as the director's vision. It doesn't mean one is better or worse; it means they're different.

I'm like a movie director, so wherever I feel that I need to go over this type of beat, that's what I'm going to do, that's where I'm going to go.

When I'm acting, I wish I was out there, being a part of it and making it. It's all on your name to do that. It's your vision. You're going to get slandered for your work, and I like that. As an actor, it's so hard. I'd rather direct than act.

Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I don't have this feeling like, 'Oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here.' I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.

If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.